Eulasiocolpus Champion, 1900

Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 49-66 : 55-56

Eulasiocolpus Champion, 1900

( Figs. 2 , 17–18 )

Eulasiocolpus Champion, 1900: 313 . Type species: Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900 .

Diagnostic characters. Head width across eyes wider than pronotum distally, broadly produced in front; eyes very large, oval, contiguous to pronotum; rostrum long, reaching mid coxae. Pronotum shiny, lateral margins slightly carinated; a distinct collar present; anterior lobe smooth and convex, separated from posterior lobe by deep transverse groove; scutellum deeply and transversely sulcate beyond the middle. Hemelytra with only a row of punctures on inner margin of exocorium and clavus; exocorium moderately wide. Fore and hind femora enlarged, unarmed; male with fore tibiae with row of spines on their inner margin; fossula spongiosa well developed. Ostiolar peritreme curved, apically acute ( Fig. 17 ). Median sulcus reaching tip of peritreme ( Fig. 18 ).

Studied material. Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900 : BOLIVIA: Cochabamba, II-1962, 1 J ( MACN). BRA- ZIL: Tijuca, Gb., VII-1960, 1 ♀, H. Schubart lgt. ( MACN).

Figures

Figs. 1–9. 1 – Calliodis pallescens (Reuter, 1884); 2 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900; 3 – Guayascoris foreroi gen. & sp. nov.; 4 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909); 5 – Nidicola mitra Drake & Herring, 1964; 6 – Opisthypselus punctaticollis Reuter, 1908; 7 – Zopherocoris armatus (Stål, 1860); 8 – Scolopella brasiliensis Carayon, 1954; 9 – Scolopocoris gracilicornis (Poppius, 1909). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figs. 16–21. 16 – Calliodis pallescens Reuter, 1884, ostiolar peritreme. 17, 18 – Eulasiocolpus megalops Champion, 1900: 17 – ostiolar peritreme; 18 – detail of evaporatorium. 19–21 – Lepidonannella opaca (Poppius, 1909): 19 – scales on pronotum; 20 – ostiolar peritreme, 21 – detail of evaporatorium.